Lady Gaga's Born This Way was one of the only records to break the one million barrier in its first week, and it was sold at heavy discounts by online retailers.

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Ms. Acharia-Bath arranged for Lady Gaga's hit single "Born This Way" to be remixed by two sets of producers: The Bollywood team of Salim and Sulaiman and Culture Shock, a Canada-based band and production team.

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This has me wondering, for all her sartorial derring-dos and Born This Way anthem, is Lady Gaga just like every other woman after all?

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In March, Lady Gaga put out a country version of her single "Born This Way" (although I have to say, Little Big Town did it better).

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In less than a week Lady Gaga has sold 1 million digital copies of her newest song, Born This Way, making it the fastest selling single ever on iTunes.

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It has been the best of times and then the worst of times for Target these past several weeks: In February it scored what seemed to the coup of celebrity endorsements: Lady Gaga, who was to offer fans an exclusive deluxe edition of her new album, Born This Way, before its release date, scheduled for May 23.

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